{"id":766,"date":"2009-02-09T21:26:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T03:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/02\/09\/february-9\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T21:26:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T03:26:51","slug":"february-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/february-9\/","title":{"rendered":"February 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Palestinian journalist has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeltotten.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/a-minority-repo.php\">very insightful thoughts<\/a> about the current situation in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.&#160; It&#8217;s not short, but it&#8217;s honest.<\/p>\n<p>John Piper&#8217;s latest biographical sermon is now available (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/MediaPlayer\/3573\/Audio\/\">audio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/ConferenceMessages\/ByConference\/43\/3573_I_Will_Not_Be_a_VelvetMouthed_Preacher\/\">text<\/a>).&#160; His subject was George Whitefield and his title was &#8220;&#8216;I Will Not Be a Velvet-Mouthed Preacher! &#8216; The Life and Ministry of George Whitefield: Living and Preaching as Though God Were Real (Because He Is).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a guy still living who fought in World War I.&#160; In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/uss-last-known-wwi-vet-turns-108.html\">this article<\/a>, he mentions talking to his grandmother, born in 1817.&#160; It makes you think differently about how quickly time passes and how stories could be passed on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/2009\/02\/24-things-about-to-disappear-i.html\">24 things about to disappear in America<\/a>.&#160; Some won&#8217;t surprise you, but some might.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to become an Israeli citizen if you &#8216;re not Jewish by blood and not Jewish by faith?&#160; I know a guy who is.&#160; He wanted to join the army, but they wouldn&#8217;t take him unless he was a citizen.&#160; He tried to become a citizen, but they wouldn&#8217;t take him because he wasn&#8217;t in the army.&#160; Somehow he managed both.&#160; The JPost has an article of another guy who managed to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1233304692257&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">permanent residency<\/a>.&#160; This will probably fuel a few dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Palestinian journalist has some very insightful thoughts about the current situation in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.&#160; It&#8217;s not short, but it&#8217;s honest. John Piper&#8217;s latest biographical sermon is now available (audio, text).&#160; His subject was George Whitefield and his title was &#8220;&#8216;I Will Not Be a Velvet-Mouthed Preacher! &#8216; The Life and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/february-9\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}